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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Did you consider rebranding? Your name still says "dev tool".
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Even if DST did save something (it does not), it becomes a problem when your timekeeping is done by computers. My computers know I live in Poland (Europe/Warsaw), and they know the DST rules. I can trust the time on my computers’ clock
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> Yeah, this stuff is weird, but only finitely so, because ultimately a computer’s gotta implement them Historic data can be recorded. Rules like "last Sunday in October" or "first day of Ramadan" can be implemented a
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Does merely hosting a website on WP Engine constitute an affiliation? I wouldn’t consider myself affiliated with Apple, Microsoft, or Volkswagen, just because I use their products and services.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Excel does not support BigInt either, so Google has no reason to implement it in their cheap imitation.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The problem with Google compiler developers is that they will do a search of the google3 repository, find no uses (because Google doesn’t do any advanced math, for example) and declare the language feature to be useless.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> Regarding BigInt, the presentation states that “use cases never materialized.” Yet every language has either that or BigDecimal. Even if Google's frontend devs haven't found a use, there also exist JS devs outside of Google w
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
It is, in my experience. Especially with larger projects. And if you compare to VS+ReSharper, which is equivalent to Rider feature-wise, it blows it out of the water.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I don’t think JetBrains was forced to make Rider free. Their main customers are businesses, which still need to pay for Rider. Businesses also need to pay for Visual Studio (purple icon) if they have more than 5 developers. VS Code can theo
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Rider is much better and faster than Visual Studio, and it's worth every penny. Making it free is a great move.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The UK government/BBC is happy to give £91m/year to Crapita to administer the TV License [0], and there are a bunch of other contractors [1]. Almost 100 million pounds wasted that could be spent on programming, but instead go to p
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
How much taxpayer money is wasted on the accounting, the enforcement, and the scary-sounding letters? Wouldn’t it be better if the government just gave taxpayer money to the BBC directly?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Password Store sounds like a cool Unixy idea, but it's quite janky in my experience, especially if non-desktop-Unix systems are involved. The Android app was fine; it integrated with a GPG app that was less fine.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
While the Japanese organisation might only watch videos, other rating boards do play the games: https://usk.de/en/home/age-classification-for-games-and-apps... https://gamesratingauthority.org.uk/R
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
For the age rating to be trustworthy, someone actually has to play your game, in full, paying extra attention to all dialogue and content. Paying that someone 1337 USD (200k JPY) for this seems fair to me. While some ports may be created by
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
If everyone’s on Windows, or if the tool always generates/requires CRLF, then you should store the files with CRLF line endings in the repository. In a mixed Windows/Linux environment, I would still prefer to handle this myself ra
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
When LF doesn’t work (e.g. in cmd), you can always use something like .editorconfig to tell editors to use CRLF, and you should keep those files as CRLF in the repo.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Nope. Git should not mess with line endings, the remote repository not matching the code in your local clone can bite you when you least expect it. On Windows, one should disable the autocrlf misfeature (git config --global core.autocrlf fa
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> Personally, I’ve always found it surprising that these massive companies, worth billions, rely on third-party tools like Zendesk instead of building their own in-house ticketing systems. Do you find it surprising that they use Microsof
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The ActiveX "player" (Internet Explorer) was also proprietary. And I'm not sure if you could get away without proprietary Microsoft tools to develop for it.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
I don't think there exists any code that makes uppercasing decisions based on the selected font. Besides, if it doesn't exist in the current font, there's probably a fallback font.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The Swiss have dropped ß, but it's still a thing in Germany or Austria.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Because they live in a country with a completely broken capitalist healthcare system?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
It’s also a good way to prevent getting useful pull requests.
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
An excuse to pay less cash to employees?
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Dictionaries have also accepted the shorter spelling when talking about computer programs: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/program && https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.c
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
> If companies can't use Open Source without the risk that the project could ban them from using it, even if the company adheres to the letter of the license (if not the spirit), then most companies won't use Open Source. Compa
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Python is popular, because it's simple, and it's great as a glue language. The simplicity made it the language of choice for beginner's computer science courses at universities and schools. The glue language qualities led to
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
The existence of a guide to install Python 2 on "Mac OS X" suggests this hasn't been updated in a long time. It was written by Kenneth Reitz (a controversial figure), and it seems to promote pipenv a lot (which is a terrible
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by Kwpolska 2y ago
Cloudflare Domains is the cheapest.

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